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Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:08:42 -0500

BearingPoint says financial services firms are finding SOA services are costly, less reliable, hard to maintain.

Financial services firms that have implemented services under a service-oriented architecture (SOA) are finding that they can be more expensive, less reliable and harder to maintain than standalone applications, says Sajay Sethunath, chief architect for BearingPoint's financial services consulting business. IT departments tend to pick the low-hanging fruit and build services that they know will be reused by several applications, he says. But too often they haven't established a metric to show how the effort leads to savings. What's worse, Sethunath says, many of the services aren't even what business users want.

--Courtesy Charles Babcock, InformationWeek

Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive ... View Full Bio

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